top of page
"I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Saying quotes

"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."

"Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal."

"There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'"

"Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all."

"Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?"

"As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me."
Explore more quotes by Zahi Hawass

"I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them."

"We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries."

"It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery."

"Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization."

"Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold."

"When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world."

"Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons."
bottom of page